​​​​​Matt Gallagher​

Film & Television

Royal Pains

Studio & on-screen musician

Celebrity Apprentice

Music Director (Arsenio Hall)

Live! with Regis and Kelly

On-screen accordion (Harvey Fierstein)

The 78th Tony Awards 

Guest conductor: Hamilton OBC

Hamilton
Vocal Editing Consultant

tick, tick... Boom!

Studio Vocal Prep

In the Heights

Studio Conductor



In the world's theater capital, I've served as a full time member of the company for the following Broadway shows...

* indicates Conductor

  • Rock of Ages*

  • School of Rock

  • Bullets Over Broadway

  • Sister Act

  • Catch Me If You Can

  • La Cage Aux Folles (2010)

  • ​West Side Story (2010)

  • Hairspray

  • In the Heights*

  • Something Rotten

  • The Last Ship

  • Lestat

  • The Drowsy Chaperone

  • Tarzan

  • A Chorus Line (2007)

  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

  • Avenue Q*

  • On Your Feet!

  • Dames at Sea (2015)

  • Cabaret (2014)

  • Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life

  • Fiddler on the Roof (2004)

  • The Boy From Oz

  • Beauty and the Beast

Off-Broadway/Regional

The Apple Boys (Vocal Arranger)

Bucks County Playhouse, 2025

How to Dance in Ohio (Music Supervisor, Orchestrations, Arrangements)

Syracuse Stage, 2022

Wringer (Music Supervisor, Orchestrations, Arrangements)

City Center, 2015; Joe's Pub, 2017

Tick, Tick… Boom! (Conductor, Piano)

Encores! Off-Center, 2014

Turning the Page (MD, Orchestrations)

Laurie Beechman Theater, 2014

Presto Change-O (MD)

Barrington Stage, 2014

The Last Five Years (Conductor, Piano)

Second Stage, 2013

Last Queen of Canaan (MD, Arrangements)

Yale Institute for Music Theater, 2013; ​NAMT, 2015



Broadway for Biden (Assoc. Music Director, Orchestrations)

Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 2023

The SpongeBob Musical (Assoc Conductor, Keys, Accordion)

Oriental Theater, 2023

Cymbeline (Music Director, Piano/Accordion)

​Shakespeare in the Park: Delacorte Theatre, 2015

Golem of Havana (Music Coordinator)

La Mama, 2013

Atlantic Theater (Music Supervisor)

Annual Gala, 2011-2017

Altar Boyz (Keys/MD)

Original Company, New World Stages, 2005
Music Supervisor, Detroit Company, 2005

Zanna, Don't! (MD)​

John Houseman Theater, 2003

Broadway

How to Dance in Ohio

Additional Music Arrangements

​​Doctor Zhivago

Associate Conductor, Piano/Keyboard 1

Newsies

Assistant Conductor, Piano/Synth 1 [Replacement]

Pal Joey (2009)

Assistant Conductor, Piano/Synth 1 [Replacement]

​Legally Blonde

Associate Conductor, Keyboard


Hamilton: An American Musical
Associate Music Supervisor
​Hands on a Hardbody

Associate Conductor, Keyboard/Organ

Jesus Christ Superstar (2012)

Associate Conductor, Keyboard

9 to 5

Associate Conductor, Keyboard/Organ

High Fidelity
Associate Conductor, Keyboard/Organ


A substitute musician replaces the full-time player in performance, much like an understudy for an actor. As a sub, I've had the honor of performing as a member and/or Conductor of the following shows' orchestras... 

  • The Book of Mormon*

  • Chicago

  • The Bridges of Madison County

  • Finian's Rainbow (2010)

  • Evita (2012)

  • Memphis

  • Anything Goes (2011)